Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a Source of Religious, Moral and Spiritual Truths | AQA GCSE Religious Studies A (8062)
Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a Source of Religious, Moral and Spiritual Truths
- 104 questions
- 7 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a Source of Religious, Moral and Spiritual Truths is examined in Paper 2, Thematic studies.
It covers the parables of the Kingdom, entering the Kingdom: children, wealth and the greatest commandment, Jesus and those his society rejected, faith, giving and devotion, the call and mission of the disciples, the cost of discipleship and failure, and the commission and the authority of Jesus' teaching today.
Sample questions from Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a Source of Religious, Moral and Spiritual Truths
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The parables of the Kingdom
What do the path and the rocky ground represent?
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The path is people from whom Satan takes the word away at once. The rocky ground is people who receive it with joy but fall away when trouble or persecution comes. -
The parables of the Kingdom
What does the mustard seed teach about the Kingdom?
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The kingdom begins very small and becomes something great. The birds sheltering suggest that many will find a place in it. -
Entering the Kingdom: children, wealth and the greatest commandment
What did Jesus tell the rich man to do?
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Jesus looked at him and loved him, then said one thing was lacking: sell everything, give to the poor, and come and follow. The man went away sad, because he had great wealth. -
Entering the Kingdom: children, wealth and the greatest commandment
What did Jesus give as the greatest commandment?
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Jesus quoted the Shema: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Jesus named loving your neighbour as yourself as the second. -
Jesus and those his society rejected
Who was Levi and why was his job resented?
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Levi was a tax collector sitting at his booth. Tax collectors worked for the Roman occupation and were widely regarded as traitors and cheats. -
Jesus and those his society rejected
How did the woman answer, and what happened?
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The woman replied that even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. Jesus commended her reply and told her the demon had left her daughter. -
Faith, giving and devotion
What did Jesus say to the woman with the haemorrhage?
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Jesus said, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Calling her daughter restores her to the community. -
Faith, giving and devotion
What does Mark 11:22-24 teach about faith and prayer?
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Jesus tells the disciples to have faith in God and says that whatever they ask for in prayer, believing they have received it, will be theirs. Many Christians take this as a call to pray with trust rather than doubt.
The 7 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The parables of the Kingdom | The subtopic covers what a parable is and why Jesus used them according to Mark 4, the sower and its interpretation, the growing seed and the mustard seed, and whether the Kingdom of God is inward or communal. | 13 |
| Entering the Kingdom: children, wealth and the greatest commandment | These questions explain receiving the Kingdom like a child, the rich man and what Jesus told him, Jesus' teaching on wealth and the disciples' reaction, and the scribe's question answered by the greatest commandment. | 13 |
| Jesus and those his society rejected | Students learn about the man with leprosy and why Jesus' touch matters, Levi and the offence of eating with tax collectors, the Greek woman of Mark 7 and why the passage troubles Christians, and what the three encounters share. | 14 |
| Faith, giving and devotion | The subtopic covers the epileptic boy and his father's cry of belief and unbelief, the woman with a haemorrhage, the widow's offering and the anointing at Bethany, and what faith means in Mark, with differing Christian views of its nature and importance. | 23 |
| The call and mission of the disciples | These questions explain the call of the first disciples and what a disciple is, why Jesus chose twelve, the mission of the Twelve with what they took and how they met rejection, and how Mark presents the disciples overall. | 13 |
| The cost of discipleship, and failure | Students learn Jesus' teaching on taking up the cross, saving and losing life and being ashamed of him, the rewards and persecutions of discipleship, Peter's three denials and Mark 16:7, and views on what discipleship costs today. | 14 |
| The commission, and the authority of Jesus' teaching today | The subtopic covers the commission in Mark 16:15 and the signs promised, the disputed longer ending, what the authority of Jesus' teaching means, and the secular challenges to that authority with Christian answers. | 14 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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